The remake has no soul

Yep, agree totally. The US remake is very good but the original had that all pervading melancholy and 'otherness' that the US version doesn't. Lund and Meyer were a great team and Linden and Holder are also, but for me what lets the US version down is the political thread - nowhere near as Machiavellian or as essential to the whole atmosphere - Richmond and his team just don't compare to Hartmann, Ria and Morten.

Yes, the remake is missing the painful, broken mess of a script from the original.

It's like they actually worked through the script more than once.

The US-Canadian remake is surprisignly decent but something's missing and it's hard to explain. Something in Forbrydelsen made me wanna think how i'd survive the next week till the next ep after the ending of each one.

Aside from the lack of the awesome Sofie Grabol on whom much of the original show hangs, it's also this inexplicable sense of haunting, sombre moodiness that the remake just can't capture. ALso the Danishness of the show added to its appeal for me - the faces, names, language and dark, shining with rain streets of Copenhagen.

Does anyone who watched the remake feel the same?

I feel a little bit the same, I wonder if not the remake is done the actors knowing which one is the killer, the danish original forfbrydelsen (the crime) was done without letting the actors know who was the killer, the thought that the actors played it more real then and it worked anyone knows if that is the case?

I think it should be done/filmed that way but many actors doesn't work that way I think it makes it very real filming it without letting them know who it is.

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It's very strange to be watching the 2 series at the same time. Both are predicated on the police making quite a lot of mistakes, but somehow you feel in the original version is due to lack of resources and political power. Denmark may be a small sea, but the politicians are very big fish. In the penultimate episode of the US version they do absolutely nothing to progress the case whereas in ep. 16 of 20 so roughly the same point Lund has her life falling about her and all she cares about is the case.

I think US drama has to follow rules, with the buddy element and the how can we make the lead sympathetic element. To me it feels that they work too hard on the characters whereas the original version concentrated harder on story telling. Scandinavians are less outwardly emotional (leading to the inner turmoil of Ibsen's plays) which might be hard for a US audience which expects people to more open. One thing which surprised about the US version was setting it in Washington rather than just west of the Great Lakes (like Fargo) where a fair portion of the population is of Scandinavian descent.

Despite all of this, I like the US version, but I find the Danish version more believable.

... and 1 shot at the basket for $5m is the kind of thing I mean.

I've seen the remake and I thought it was good. I hope I'm not disappointed by the original.

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Yes wonderful all aspects. Treats viewer with respect and assumes some sophistication...which I guess is a bit of a given since we read subtitles. Enjoy.